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‘Give land ownership to dwellers in unobjectionable slums’
The Hindu
Activists form a human chain in support of slum dwellers’ demands
A number of organisations under the banner of the Federation for Urban Habitat-Land Rights formed a human chain here on Saturday to highlight a number of demands, including the transfer of land ownership to people living in slums classified as “unobjectionable”.
J. Sebastin, coordinator of the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board Residents’ Welfare Committee, one of the organisations involved in the agitation, said the government must stop evicting people from “unobjectionable” slums and instead grant pattas to them for the land.
The federation appealed to the State government to not resettle people from the city to faraway places like Perumbakkam, Kannagi Nagar and Semmenchery. With the government planning to evict people residing along the banks of the Buckingham Canal, the organisations said the evicted dwellers must be provided houses within the city.